When comparing Kiln vs Google Cloud Source Repositories, the Slant community recommends Kiln for most people. In the question“What are the best hosted version control services?”Kiln is ranked 4th while Google Cloud Source Repositories is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Kiln is:

Integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services

Pro

Excellent security

Everything is stored encrypted in Google's datacenters. You can give fine grained control to other Google accounts and collaborate.

Pro

Free tier

Cloud Source Repositories is free for up to 5 project-users per billing account. The free tier comes with up to 50GB free storage total and 50GB free egress per month.

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Cons

Con

Non-free

Kiln is not free, but it has the option for two users to try it for free first.

Con

No inline editing

Unlike some other popular repositories, there is no way to edit inline directly from the source browser. Although, you can use the Cloud Console (web based terminal and web based editor) to check out your code; edit it using your favorite command line editor (or the web based editor); then save and commit your changes.

Con

Must set-up billing account

For all Google Cloud Platform projects you must enable Billing. This isn't uncommon for cloud hosting providers but it still could be considered a CON.

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